NYC’s 28 Liberty Gets Reinvigorated With Big Lobby LED Features May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide …
New Statue Of Liberty Museum Is Filled With Screens May 21, 2019 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at the newly-opened Statue of Liberty Museum, which is located Guess Where. The new museum is part of a $100 million Liberty Island-wide beautification effort that’s being funded by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in collaboration with the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. The museum …
LED Board In Flames In Times Square A Mitsubishi, But Doubtful That Display Was Fire’s Origin May 20, 2019 by Dave Haynes That media display board that was on fire on the weekend was indeed a Mitsubishi LED display, but I’ve not yet found anything online explaining what happened. It’s easy to to look at this incident and see a problem owing to LED tech, but the screen may well have been collateral damage, with the origins …
Big DOOH LED Display Board Catches Fire In Times Square May 19, 2019 by Dave Haynes A big LED display on the Reuters building in Times Square in New York, one of a few displays on the building, caught fire on Saturday afternoon. One side of the display burned, raining debris as it kept on playing ads. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To access the actual content, …
SNA Wins That Massive Times Square LED Video Wall Job That Includes Embedded Stage May 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes Sansi, more widely known as SNA Displays, has won the LED job for that big new Times Square video wall that includes a built-in live performance stage. A press release says real estate investment firms L&L Holding Company, Fortress Investment Group and Maefield Development, alongside consultant Sensory Interactive, chose SNA to manufacture and install the …
Sneak Peek: Big 4mm LED Wall Ready To Go In Charlotte Office Tower Lobby May 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes This a 4mm pitch LED wall – a Nanolumens one – going in at the Charlotte head office of the real estate services firm Lincoln Harris.
Trying To Nerd Out, And Mostly Failing, At Display Week May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes The Society for Information Display is a non-profit group run by display industry people, and it holds an annual trade show and conference that pulls in many to most of the top-level display engineers in that business. Display Week, as the event is called, is this week in San Jose, CA, and I am attending …
Big Oops! Huge LED Wall In Ruins At Mandalay Bay’s Arena May 13, 2019 by Dave Haynes There are endless theories, it seems, as to what happened – but what is without question is that the other day, an LED wall hung on a truss for events at the Mandalay Bay’s arena in Las Vegas collapsed. It seems to have been a relatively slow motion collapse, as opposed to a catastrophic crash. …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
From Oldest To Newest: Barclays Refreshes Massive LED Facade in NY Times Square May 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes The UK-based investment bank Barclays has refreshed the LED displays on the facade of its New York City headquarters on Seventh Avenue, putting on 7,046 square feet of new direct LED. “The enhanced signage system is a powerful example of how we infuse digital innovation into everything we do here at Barclays,” says Richard Haworth, …
